Satellite data are an important component of the global climate observing system (GCOS). To serve the purpose of climate change monitoring, these data should satisfy certain criteria in terms of the length of observations and the continuity and consistency between different missions and instruments. Despite the great potential and obvious advantages of satellite observations, such as frequent repeat cycles and global coverage, their use in climate studies is hindered by substantial difficulties arising from large data volumes, complicated processing, and significant computer resources required for archiving and analysis. Successful examples of satellite earth observation (EO) data in climate studies include, among others, analyses of the earth’s radiation budget (Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), Scanner for Radiation Budget (ScaRaB), and Cloud and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES)), cloudiness (International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP)), vegetation research (Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS)), and the
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